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description: Ausonius,[9] the friend of the Emperor Valentinian, and the latest poet of eminence in the Western Empire, has handed down some of these fables in verse, which Julianus Titianus, a contemporary writer of no great name, translated into prose. Who acts: prose. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fabl
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 55

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Ausonius,\[9\] the friend of the Emperor Valentinian, and the latest poet of eminence in the Western Empire, has handed down some of these fables in verse, which Julianus Titianus, a contemporary writer of no great name, translated into prose.

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**Who acts:** prose · **What happens:** hand down, translate · **To what, where:** Ausonius, Julianus

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated From the Greek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prose), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg21:1:55
# text = Ausonius,[9] the friend of the Emperor Valentinian, and the latest poet of eminence in the Western Empire, has handed down some of these fables in verse, which Julianus Titianus, a contemporary writer of no great name, translated into prose.
1	Ausonius	Ausonius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Valentinian	Valentinian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	latest	late	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	eminence	eminence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
24	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	obj	_	_
35	Julianus	Julianus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	Titianus	Titianus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	contemporary	contemporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	44	det	_	_
43	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
47	into	into	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hand down** | present · perfect · passive |  | Ausonius |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination fable=Theme |
| 2 | **translate** | participle · passive | prose | Julianus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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